On April 25, 2019 former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. announced his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 2020 general election. Biden has a long career in the federal government, serving as a United States Senator from Delaware for 36 years from 1979 to 2009 before two terms as the 47th Vice President from 2009 to 2017. Biden had previously - and unsuccessfully - sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984, 1988, and 2008. While he did not seek the nomination in the 2016 election, he now joins an eclectic, competitive, and growing field of Democratic presidential...